Psychological groups and political psychology: A response to Huddy's "critical examination of social identity theory"

Political Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 809-824

  Oakes, Penelope ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Identity salience; Identity strength; Political groups; Political psychology; Self categorization; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036908920     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00308     Document Type: Review

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